National Republican., 1887-04-18

men. A bad man will not stay In q good
soSey oSeyy ry w nS say n By
Test the first; their influence ON home, If
they have home. That wife soon loses her
influence over her husband who enormously and
foolishly looks upon all evening absence as an
assault on domesticity. How are the great
enterprises of reform, and art. and literature,
on II every man is to have his world bounded
on one side by his front door step and on tho
other side by his back window, knowing moth.
own cellar? That wife who becomes jealous
OF her husbands attention to art or literature
or religion or charity is breaking her own scep-
where wife thought that her husband was
giving too many nights to Christian service, to
charitable service, to prayer meetings, and TO
coyed him S%ay until now he attends no
church, waits upon no charitable institution,
and is on rapid way to destruction, his morals
h wbsn
band consecrates evenings to the service OF
humanity and of God, or charity or art or any
But let no man sacrifice home life to secret
society life, as many do. can point out to
you great many names OF men VINO are
guilty of this sacrilege. They are as genial as
at home. They are generous on all subjects
Of wine suppers, yachts and fast horses, but
they are stingy about the wives dresses and
which might be healthful influence. a
usurper of his affections. and he has married
It. and he is guilty. of moral bgemy Under
becomes @ Iii 1ninteresting and homeiy. He be.
comes critical of her, does not like the dress,
does not IKE the way she arranges her h1air,
se sS5 was bsre II ss
societies where membership always involves
domestic shipwreck. Tell me that a man has
Joined certain kind. and tell me nothing
his history ifhe be still alive The man Is
wine guzzer, his wife broken hearted or pre-
matufely old, his fortune gone or reduced aud
are six secular nights in the week. "What
shall do with them?' says the father and the
husband. II will give four of these nights to
hood. will devote one to charitable institu-
tiens, l win devote one to my lodge."l
"out Of the six secular nights Of The week
will devote five to lodges and clubs and asso.
Citations and one TO the home, which night Will
spend in scowling like March squall. wish
other Ave-" That mans obituary is written,
Not one out of ten thousand that ever gets so
far on the wrong road ever stops. Gradually
through too much stimulants he Will be first
rate prey for eryspelas and rheumatism Of the
heart. The doctor coming In will at q glance
sht, but i years e. e Of fast living The Clergyman.
for the sake Of the feelings of the family, on
the funeral day will only talk In religious
generalities. The men who got his yacht In
the eternal rapids will not be at the 'obsequies,
Thev have pressing engagements that day:
They will send flowers to the coffin; will send
their wives to utter words of sympathy, but
they will have pressing engagements lse.
where. They never come. Bring me mallet
and chisel, and will cut on the tombstone
that mans epiiaPh1: 1 blessed are The dead who
not be appropriate" ',Let me die the death
Of the righteous, and let my last end be like
his" mo-, you say that would not be
the chisel, and win cut an honest epitaph;
tons"
Another test by which you can find whether
your secret society Is right or wrong Is the
effect 1t has on your secular occupation Can
understand how, through such an institution,
man can reach commercial success. | know
some men have formed their best business re-
lations through such a channel. II the secret
society has advantaged you In au honorable
calling II is good one. But has your credit
faiIed7 Are bargain makers more anxious
how they trust you with II bale of goods2 Have
the men whose names were down in the com
mereial agency A ], before they entered the
staDding2 Then look out, You and every day
know OF commercial establishments going TO
ruin through the social excesses OF one or two
members, their fortunes beaten 70 death with
ball players, bat or cut nmtdships with the
front Prov of the regatta, or going down under
the swift hoois or the fast horses, or drowned
In the large potations OF cognae or Mon0nga-
hel. That secret society was tho Loch Earn.
Their business was the Vile dc Hayre. They
struck, and the Vile dc Havre went uuderl
The third test by which you may know
whether the society to which You belong is
good or bad is this: What is its effect on your
sense OF moral and religious obllgatiou2 Now,
II ] should take the names of all the people in
roll, and then should lay that roll back of
this organ, and u hundred years from now
some one should take that roll and call Il
from A 10 z there would not one Of yoI an